Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".

The ugly
You can see all images I have produced and the resulting variation in success/failure of the text to be scaled to fit here (warning - this html will try to load 300+ images): www.peaf.com/images/temp.htm

Hyphenation would be a useful enhancement. However, it requires a dictionary of words marked with all possible hyphenation points, and one dictionary is required per language, and we would need to tell IM what language is being used.

One last question to finish this post - Can I change the blue background to a diagonal gradient fill from dark blue to lighter blue? I've looked through the docs and found https://imagemagick.org/script/gradient.php but not sure how to apply that to my blue box

I would do that by writing the text with "-background None", which means transparent. Clone this, and make that image the gradient. Composite the text image over the gradient image. Then append that to the input image.